CHAPTER 550,

AN ACT to add thirteen new sections to Article 27 of the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Crimes
and Punishments, " to follow immediately after Section
350 of said Article, to be sub-titled "Uniform Machine
Gun Act" and to be known as Sections 350A, 350B, 350C,
350D, 350E, 350F, 350G, 350H, 3501, 350J, 350K, 350L,
350M, respectively relating to the manufacture, sale and
possession of machine guns and imposing imprisonment
or fines for violations of the provisions thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That thirteen new sections be added to Article
27 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title

ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1045

shall be considered to have abandoned the leave to amend,
and the cause shall proceed as if no application for such
leave had been made. But where such amendment is made,
and new facts are introduced, and the case is thus varied
in any material respect, the defendant shall be at liberty to
answer anew or demur to the bill as amended, within such
time as the court or judge thereof may prescribe, after
notice of the amendment made; and notice may, in all cases,
be given by service of a copy of the bill as amended, upon
the defendant, or upon his solicitor, if there be one; or it
may be by subpoena; or if any of the parties defendant is
an infant or non-sane defendant for whom a legal guardian
or committee may have been required by the Court to ap-
pear, answer, and defend, or for whom a guardian ad litem
may have been legally appointed, then such notice may be
given by service of a copy of the bill as amended upon such
legal guardian, committee, or guardian ad litem, or upon
his solicitor, if there be one legally appointed. The mode
of proceeding in default of answer to the matter of the
amendment shall be the same as that in default of answer
to the original bill; and the proceeding on answer or de-
murrer, filed to the amended bill, shall be the same as that
on answer or demurrer to an original bill.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1933.

Approved April 21, 1933.